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The Education Gadfly Show

NEA saber rattling, a teacher-quality decree from the White House, and balanced literacy crawls from the grave yet again in NYC. Amber spills about TFA spillover effects. Amber's Research Minute Examining Spillover Effects from Teach For AmericaCorps Members in Miami-Dade County Public Schools by...

Michelle and Brickman discuss pausing accountability while states transition to the Common Core, the perils of playing politics with Eva Moskowitz, and Governor Bobby Jindal’s Common Core bluster. Amber schools us on teacher prep. Amber's Research Minute 2014 Teacher Prep Review: A Review of the...

Amber and Michelle talk teacher tenure, selective high schools, and the stunning upset of Eric Cantor. Dara takes over the Research Minute with a study on whether vouchers "cherry pick" the best students. Amber's Research Minute “ Contexts Matter: Selection in Means-Tested School Voucher Programs...

After discussing what the research says young North West’s likelihood of educational success are, Mike and Michelle get down to brass tacks on Oklahoma’s possible Common Core repeal, the value of a college degree, and what makes Boston’s charter sector so high quality. Amber grades America’s public...

After considering whether their support of the Common Core has turned them gay, Mike and Checker get serious, discussing how young teachers are getting the short end of the stick with regard to teacher pensions and why so many low-income students drop out of college. Amber wonders why well-off U.S...

Mike and Nina Rees take on the federal charter-school bill that passed in the House last week, what traditional public schools can learn from charters, and the pros and cons of KIPP’s character-education model. Amber wades into teacher-evaluation research. Amber's Research Minute Evaluating...

Michelle and Brickman are concerned about the rapid growth of online credit-recovery programs, New York City’s new teacher labor agreement, and the fact that Indiana’s voucher-participating private schools are quickly filling up. Amber gets down to the (gloomy) facts with the 2013 12th Grade NAEP...

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About the Education Gadfly Show

For more than eight years, the Fordham Institute has been hosting a weekly podcast, The Education Gadfly Show. Each week, you’ll get lively, entertaining discussions of recent education news, usually featuring Fordham’s Mike Petrilliand Alyssa Schwenk. Then the wise Amber Northernwill recap a recent research study.

For questions or comments on the podcast, contact its producer, Andrew Scanlan.

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